1981 Chevrolet C50 Pick-up Conversion

[matchstick321]

Haha Nice flags! How did you degrease your engine? And what transmission is that? It looks like a 465 to me.

[UPNADM]

Originally Posted by matchstick321

Haha Nice flags! How did you degrease your engine? And what transmission is that? It looks like a 465 to me.

I used Gunk and Castrol Super Clean and pressure washer to get the heavy stuff off. I then brushed it down with gas, followed by a 5 inch wire wheel on my angle grinder and some various smaller wire wheels and brushes for my drill.

I then sprayed it down with brake cleaner.

[UPNADM]

This is a 4 speed trans with bull low. I am planning to switch it up to a 5 speed I have from a split rear end truck.

[manimal]

Nice build! I love those old C40's-60's!

[UPNADM]

Worked on getting the engine back together.

Did some sand blasting of engine components.

It was a blue night, tomorrow is a continuation of blue followed by some black and silver.

See the before and after.

[UPNADM]

More photos...

[Pop's C-10]

looking good

[JRANGER]

man so nice

[UPNADM]

Another night of cabinet blasting. Got the intake, oil pan and lower crank pulley done.

Tomorrow I plan to finish blasting all brackets and fasteners. Hopefully I can have the engine reassembled by the weekend.

Here are pics from tonight...

[Gordonr1973]

Engine looks really good!

[UPNADM]

Another night with the cabinet blaster and some assembly and cleaning.

Got the intake, valve covers, water pump and timing cover on the engine tonight. Got the wrong crank seal, so I could not get the harmonic balancer on or the bottom pulley. Tomorrow is another day.

Blasted some of the brackets and misc. pieces tonight. See photos. Also washed down my carb and got it looking more presentable. I hated the thought of going through the process of cleaning and repainting everything only to have a greasy looking carburetor. I am happier now.

Tomorrow hopefully finish assembling the engine and get some more pieces blasted and painted.

[UPNADM]

Some more of tonights work...

[UPNADM]

A couple more shots...

[UPNADM]

Everyday I am getting closer to having my truck ready for the road. I keep looking at bigasstrux.com for inspiration. Lots of great pictures, videos and most important trucks. Ever since I saw this website I knew I had to build one. I look forward to having a completed truck by spring.

[JRANGER]

looking good!

[UPNADM]

Just got a picture from home.... My block hugger headers have arrived.

[JRANGER]

Haha nice

[UPNADM]

Slow night, not much done. A lot of looking...

Hung my headers, looking forward to getting this engine back in the bay.

[JRANGER]

sure is blue lol

[UPNADM]

Originally Posted by JRANGER

sure is blue lol

Happens to be my favorite color. The truck would have been blue as well, but I have done that color already.

All pulleys are black, brackets now black, sand blasted the breather tonight and painted it black.

Ignition cap is black. But I did buy a set of yellow ignition wires today though...

The firewall, inside fenders and under hood will be same color as the exterior. I have the hinges, latches and other stuff blasted and painted black. Hoping to get at the frame and front driveline and get it blacked out this weekend.

When I get closer to assembly I will be blasting the rad support and innner fenders and blacking them out.

[JRANGER]

your moving quick!! Its going to be nice

[matchstick321]

I think that I am the most jealous person on earth right now!

[UPNADM]

Worked on the truck today. I worked at prepping the front end. I started stripping the passenger side of the firewall and chassis.

Passenger side is now ready for paint. Need to get the driver side done now.

A few pics...

[JRANGER]

#beastmode!!

[matchstick321]

Is there any difference at all between the C-50 cab and the K/C 10-30 cabs?